Tetragrammaton

Tetracket

Tetrameter I think that mathematics, card mathematics isn't computational at all. It's almost like art. It's really about figuring out an insight, a non-obvious insight that unlocks a problem. Yeah, and I think the reason

that I like it is because it's all about figuring things out. And I think that insight,

there's a lot of it that's kind of mechanical. It once you have it you just turn the crank and you get the

you get the proof or you get the answer yeah that special insight can be really

really magical and to me it's just about figuring things out so the reason I

actually got into mathematics if you, it's because of physics.

When I was a kid, one of the first books that my dad sort of encouraged me to read was Stephen Hawking's

brief history of time. And that book deals with kind of the big questions, right? What happened

before the Big Bang? Why is the universe the way it is?

You have this constant that measures the flatness of the universe, right? And if it's like,

basically like too high, the universe is going to expand at an increasing rate and everything is just

going to just die out in this like expansionary death. If it's too low, the universe is going to

re-collapse again. We would have never had galaxies and stars. And it turns out if we measure it, ours is exactly one.

It's like immeasurably close to one in this equilibrium between like death by expansion and death by contraction, which is crazy.

If it's a little bit off, we would have never existed, right?

If the laws of physics weren't exactly what they are, we probably would have never formed.

Yeah, because, and also, the universe has to be the exact age where one set of stars would have had to form and die and collapse, and we would

have been, because our bodies are made of supernova debris. So there has to have been, at least,

we have to be second generation in a sense. So those were the questions that kind of motivated me.

Like, where did we come from?

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